Joey Keel spoke about the theme for this years RYLA camp; Peace, and Conflict Resolution. He said the most fun things were volleyball games, and the Challenge course. The food was good too! RYLA was a good experience. Joey thanked Globe Rotary for sponsoring him.Trinity De La Torre said she has always been shy and timid, and this was the first time she'd been away from home for four days. Trinity said she made friends quickly, and was in leadership groups where she learned about how to work with different personality types. The RYLA experience was a very positive one!

President Paul Jepson, MaryAnn Moreno present

Cassie Tafoya with her membership certificate.

MaryAnn Moreno "pins" our newest member.

Rotary District Governor Ellie Patterson, and Dick Kroeber, attended Globe Rotary's December 11 meeting. We had the executive board meeting early, at 11 am. Ms Patterson wanted to know all about our club and what projects we are involved in each year. After a lively discussion and introductions, we began the regular meeting. Ellie Patterson then spoke to us about some of her experiences, with Rotary International. Her speech centered on membership growth, her goal is 1500 members in our district during her tenure. She spoke on retention. What should we stop doing? What should do? What can we try that is something new? April 25th is Rotary Project Day. Pick a new or one of our regular projects to work on, publicize it!

Sharon Listiak was our guest on December 4. Among her other jobs, Sharon heads up the "Read On Express" every December since 2015. She begins lining up sponsors in July, and begins to order supplies, costumes, decor etc. This event promotes early (and continuing literacy) for children with special needs, and all school-age children in the area. Over eight hundred children attended last year. Every child receives a new, age appropriate book. Since 2015, they've given away over ten thousand books.

Michael Marquez, a Globe High school senior is our November Student of the month. His favorite subject is math, and He has played football all four years in high school. Michael plans to join the Marines, then go to college to get a degree, take

at Lamont Mortuary. There was Pizza, Fried Chicken, Salads, Chips and Salsa, Cookies and Deviled Eggs.

Ian Lamont (2nd from left) came as the resident Mortician!

Globe Justice of the Peace Jordan Reardon spoke to the

Globe Rotary Club at a special evening meeting at the Globe Active Adult

Center on October 23rd.

Reardon does much more than marry people;

he said that's the fun part of his job.

Our Justice Courts

handle misdemeanor cases as well as criminal and civil cases.

Globe Rotary President, Paul Jepson presents a certificate to Dalila Camacho. Dalila is a 12th grader at Globe High School. She will be a first-generation high school graduate (and college graduate!). She is planning to attend ASU or possibly the U of A. She is interested in biomedicine, and Dentistry.